Marmalade recipe

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 Writing this up, as over the past however-many-years (too many!) I go looking and then forget which recipe I like and how I want to tweak it a little, I've no idea who the original recipe was taken from, possible Mary Berry, Delia or Good Housekeeping, or perhaps none of those .... 

Anyway, my take on marmalade:


Ingredients:

Seville oranges
Water
Granulated sugar
Lemon (I use 1 lemon per kg of oranges)

Optional:

Whisky / Brandy / Cointreau

Equipment:

Juicer
Jam jars and lids
Serrated knife
Funnel
Muslin cloth
Jam pan
Wooden spoon
Small saucers for testing the setting point
Sugar thermometer (although I tend to find the freezer / saucer method more reliable, so if you don't have a sugar thermometer, don't worry too hard!)

Quantity - well, depends on the weight of your seville oranges, but the ratio is what is important:

Oranges / Sugar / Liquid

1 / 2 / 2

Liquid comprises of juice from oranges and water

Methodology:

Part 1 - 

  1. Wash the oranges and remove the green knobbly bits
  2. Halve and juice the oranges
  3. Cut the halves into quarters
  4. With a serrated knife, remove the pith and cut the peel into small pieces, dependent on how you like your marmalade (thin / thick strips)
  5. Put pith and pips into a muslin cloth, tie the cloth up
  6. Put the cut peel into the jam pan with the liquid
  7. Put the muslin cloth with pith and pips into the pan
  8. Soak overnight
Part 2 - 

  1. Put saucers into the freezer
  2. Add lemon juice from the lemon(s)
  3. Simmer for an hour or so until the peel is soft (Whilst this is simmering, put the sugar in an oven at approx 100 degrees centigrade to warm)
  4. Once the peel is soft, add sugar
  5. Slowly dissolve the sugar (DO NOT BOIL UNTIL SUGAR HAS FULLY DISSOLVED)
  6. Bring the mix to the boil and measure with the sugar thermometer
  7. Once at 105 deg c, remove from heat and test for set
Testing for a set - 

Personally whilst I use my jam thermometer to see that I'm almost there, for me, the best results are using the "saucer method".

Jarring - 





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